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In March, I wrote about the struggle I was having with pneumonia and asthma and how I was going to have to see a pulmonary specialist.  My appointment with the specialist wasn’t supposed to be until mid-May, but that changed this past week.  I’d been having new and troubling symptoms and struggling to breathe more than I ever had.  Monty …

Happy spring!

Me, at seven: “Dad, can I be a priest when I grow up?”
Dad: “A priest?”
Me: “It’s a man in church that sits in a box and listens to you talk. I saw it on a show I watched with Grandma.”
Dad: “I know what it is. Why do you want to be one?”
Me: “Because you get to sit in the curtains and listen to people tell you stuff.”

Monty walked into the living room last night and asked me who I was talking to. “My computer,” I said. “It sounded like you were arguing with it.” “I was,” I said.  “Stupid thing keeps telling me I need to update it and I don’t have time right now.  And my volume button just decided not to work.  How can …

I saw “The Greatest Showman” last week—the movie based on the life of circus developer and promoter P. T. Barnum, played by Hugh Jackman.  I was completely blown away by the music, the acting, and the story.  As soon as the movie was over, I Googled P. T. Barnum.  And let’s just say I much prefer the movie version of …